12-28-2019, 10:26 PM
(12-28-2019, 12:48 PM)Mikebert Wrote: This sort of thing has been done with Stephen Skowronek's Political Time model.
https://spot.colorado.edu/~mcguire/skow2
http://firstyear2017.org/essay/what-time-is-it.html
It is now too late to contemplate how Hillary Clinton would have done things differently.Trump looks disjunctive, but at the least (for him) he has the Party full of stalwart supporters. This said, he is a President that about 55% of the American public despises, demographics cutting into his core support, gross misunderstanding of the political system, and gigantic lapses of ethics.
He has only one way in which to get re-elected, and that will require ruthlessness that no prior President has shown. He must compel the public to accept fabrications as fact, and perhaps cultivate a climate of fear that gets to basic insecurities (status loss, economic ruin, and ethnic purity) that people do not admit that they have. He must splinter his opposition.
Ask again in eleven months and six days.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.